Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
lamella .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
lamella .
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- noun Alternative form of
lamella .
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Examples
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a fly's claw, but they forgot the drop of water which is indispensable; at other times it was the little lamel, and they pushed each other forward, and put the instrument out of order; then, when they saw only a haze, they blamed the optician.
Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850
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